About
20 years. Four countries. 12 products. 45+ startups. One question: does it actually work?
Two kids, one wife I'm still crazy about. This comes first. Always will.
12 consumer products at Vulpine Creations — designed, prototyped, and shipped worldwide. Plus 20+ years of industrial automation and innovation ventures.
Scaled an innovation ecosystem across four locations including San Francisco. 20+ years of industrial innovation and product development.
Built Austria's youngest startup accelerator from scratch. 45+ portfolio startups. Put an entire region on the startup map.
Every talk is built like a product: tested, refined, stripped to the essential. No theory without proof.
Worked with 45+ founders at Startup Burgenland. From first idea to funded company. Hands-on, not theoretical.
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It started with an electrical engineering degree and a question that wouldn't leave me alone: why do most innovations die before anyone experiences them? I designed large-scale industrial automation systems across four countries. I opened a tattoo studio. I earned a Master's in Innovation Management. I crossed four countries and three continents looking for the answer.
I found part of it at 360 Innovation Lab, which I scaled to offices in Graz, Warsaw, and San Francisco — a makerspace, a code lab, and an accelerator that attracted over three thousand applications across its lifetime. Then the pandemic hit, and everything stopped. Except me.
In 2021, I built StartUp Burgenland from scratch — building a startup ecosystem from zero in Austria's most underserved region. Over five years: 45+ portfolio startups, €10.7M in portfolio funding and capitalisation, a 48% founder relocation rate. According to regional data, more startups were founded in Burgenland in those three years than in the entire decade before. I didn't just run a programme — I put an entire region on the map.
Somewhere along the way — a hotel room, 2 a.m., a deck of cards — I stumbled into a 5,000-year-old discipline built on a single, ruthless principle: the only thing that matters is the audience's experience. Not the method. Not the cleverness. Not the ego. Just one question: did it work?
That obsession became a company. During a global pandemic — while the rest of the world paused — my partner Adam Wilber and I built Vulpine Creations — a premium product company for the professional performance industry — into a globally recognised brand. 12 original products, each tested thousands of times before release. A 4.9-star rating. Zero refund requests to date. Tens of thousands of units shipped worldwide. The world's foremost collector in our niche called one of our products "the most versatile set ever experienced." We sold the company in 2024.
That discipline — question everything, build what works, subtract until only the essential remains — became the throughline of my entire career. It's how I build products, companies, accelerators, and keynotes. I call it Subtract to Ship. Strip away everything that doesn't serve the experience. What's left is what matters.
In Numbers
What I Believe
The audience's experience is the only thing that matters.
The right method is the one that works.
Every "impossible" is a constraint you haven't designed around yet.
The perfect system is one where you can take everything away.
People don't choose the best option. They choose the one they know — and that should terrify you.
Experience is the thing you get after you need it.
There's no such thing as passive income.
Give the knowledge for free. Sell the implementation.
I build my reputation on results, not promises.
I build things and I study people. Turns out the two skills are inseparable.
What's Next
If you're building something that matters and need someone who's done it before — not someone who's read about it — let's talk.